MT4 Expert reports and server log files for troubleshooting/bug report
Testing and optimization of EA in Strategy Tester
Description
If you have a problem with EA, want to learn more about a feature, or misunderstand a bug, put together the entire package of reports and files that the programmer needs.
This article will tell you and show you how to make an expert advisor report to the programmer so he understands the problems of the expert.
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Detailed instructions on how to study the EA in certain conditions or error correction.
A reminder for those who have failures/bugs of experts/scripts/indicators
For any programmer to understand the problem of the expert/script/indicator behavior, you need to provide some information. The process of parsing the problem is reduced to minimal time.
You can send us all the files through the form Problem Report Form in the Expert Advisor.
What do you need for this:
- The picture of the entire terminal on the graph of which is a robot EA( ScreenShot )
- A set of adviser or indicator settings. File “SET file.“
- Log files from expert advisor ( logs EA)
- Log files from the terminal ( logs SERVER)
- Detailed Report
- Strategy Tester ( Strategy Tester report )
- Strategy Tester Log files tester
- A detailed description of the problem in a text document, with the numbers of the tickets of deals with which the problem occurred.
Author of the article www.expforex.com
Learn more about how to get this information:
The picture of the whole terminal
on the graph of which stands a robot EA
Right-click on the graph:
Active working area (Uncheck “Publish on mql5.com website”) – save
Result:
Configuration File Set File
Enter the advisor settings:
To do this, press F7 on the chart where the expert is installed!
Go to the tab Settings, and then click Save
This file is needed to reproduce the problem
Log files from experts
Experts tab – right-click – Open
Open the folder of the expert’s logs – archive the last three days of the expert’s work in the file!
Log files from the terminal
Log tab – right-click – Open
When the logs folder from the terminal is open – Enter the last three days of the terminal operation in the archive!
Attention: If YOU did not find the logs in the usual folders, you need to find the data folder in the terminal – “file” menu – click “open data folder!“
Detailed report
Tab – Account history – right-click – Report – HTML
Strategy Tester
If this problem appears on the strategy tester, please send a log of the strategy tester file.
Tab – log in the tester-right click – Open.
Open a folder of expert logs. Put the files for today’s test in the archive!
The detailed report from the tester:
For all this package, please put it in the ZIP archive and send the best Forex programmer.
This will save both your and our time and allow you to understand the problem more thoroughly.
ZIP archive
This whole package is put in a ZIP file and sent to the programmer.
It will save your and our time and will allow us to understand in more detail the problem.
- Select all files you want to add.
- Press right-click and click Add to archive.
- Rename file name
- Select ZIP (Required)
- click ok
The resulting file can be sent to us via mail.
This package is placed in the ZIP archive and sent to the programmer. This will save both your and Our time and will allow you to understand the problem in more detail.
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